Nutrition Technician
Required skills
- food preparation
- institutional dietary setting
- dietary guidelines
- patient tray assembly
- safe food handling
- patient menu selection
- record keeping
- I&O's
- caloric counts
- refrigerator temperatures
Role summary
The Nutrition Technician serves as the primary point of contact for nutrition services on patient units. This role involves managing patient menu selections, assembling and delivering meal trays, and ensuring patient requests are met. Key responsibilities include maintaining unit kitchens, recording refrigerator temperatures, managing diet lists, and ensuring safe food handling practices. The position requires 1-3 years of food preparation experience, preferably in a large-scale institutional dietary setting, and strong problem-solving and communication skills. A Sanitation and Food Handlers course is preferred.
Shift - Day, Full-Time
Work Schedule - Mon-Fri 11:00AM-7:30PM with rotating weekends / holidays
Principal Duties:
Functions as the primary point of contact for nutrition services on the patient unit. Utilizes problem-solving and communications skills as well as knowledge of diet therapies to perform duties in an accurate and timely manner.
- Distributing, assisting, collecting and correcting of patient menu selections.
- Deliver patient trays to floors per unit using Meal Delivery Carts.
- Assemble Meal Trays according to Patient Selections and Diet Guidelines.
- Passing of meal trays and nourishments using two Patient identifiers and collecting of meal trays from all patients, including isolation patients
- Fill patient requests and retrieve missing/needed items for delivery to patients in timely manner.
- Assist in passing water to patients.
- Record intake for patients on I &O’s and/or caloric counts.
- Maintain the unit kitchens.
- Clean kitchen and refrigerators
- Record refrigerator temperatures each day and adjust thermostats as necessary.
- Rotating and replenishing bulk nourishments.
- Maintain updated diet lists, and status on all patients.
- Who, why, when status of eating
- Admissions, transfers, discharges
- Know where trays and nourishments are
- Decrease number of extra trays
- Process upcoming requisitions
- Deliver TF to nursing unit as ordered.
- Record tray count on meal conversion sheets.
- Ensure safe food handling.
Work Experience
Licensure/Certification/Registration
- Required: NA.
- Preferred:
- Other:
Education/Knowledge
- Attained Level: Entry level
- Preferred: Completion of Sanitation and Food Handlers course
- Completed Course Work/Program:
Applicable Experience
- Experience (years): Required: 1 - 3 years Preferred: 3 - 5 years
- Experience (describe required & preferred): One year of food preparation experience preferably in a large scale institutional dietary setting.
Benefits
Compensation:
- Pay Range: $17.50-$28.48
- Other Compensation (if applicable): Shift Differential
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